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Unbalanced "Two Kingdoms" and Political Campaigns
Prof. Clark has a couple of posts up praising Ben Sasse and even including one of his political campaign advertisements (“Ben is a Straight Shooter” | “Ben is Speaking Up About Religious Liberty“). Personally, I can’t vouch for Mr. Sasse (nor do I have any particular criticisms), and that’s not the point of this post.…
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Darryl Hart on American Roman Catholicism
Darryl Hart at “Old Life” provides some quotations regarding the uniquely American experience of Roman Catholicism and how it hasn’t really taken political root (link). I would add that Roman Catholicism does tend to exhibit a degree of syncretism. Thus, in its American embodiment it tends to be rather Protestant, but it has other flavors…
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Darryl Hart and a Heretical Pope
Darryl Hart points out how Pope John XXII (c. 1244 – 1334) was forced by the Parisian Faculty of Theology to recant his heretical views regarding the Beatific Vision (link). It’s an example of the messiness of the medieval papacy and particularly its relationship to France and the French theologians. The work from which Hart…
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Hart on the Lord’s Day and the NFL
Darryl Hart points out the rules that churches who decide to show the Superbowl at church must abide by, but notes that a better incentive might be provided by pointing out the 4th commandment (3rd for the Papalists). It’s also provides an opportunity for pointing out the changing attitude of Rome toward’s the Lord’s Day…
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Hart Documents Vatican II Watershed
Darryl Hart has posted an interesting item on the effect of Vatican II (link to post). It is a point others have observed, but his documentation on the question of justification in Roman Catholic encyclopedias is especially eye-opening. Hat’s off to DGH for this good post. -TurretinFa To God be the Glory!
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Picking the Low-hanging Cherries
Darryl Hart has posted an article (2K Cherries 2Hot 2Handle) responding to my friend Lane Keister’s decision to stop discussing two kingdoms theology on his blog. Unfortunately, the article serves as an illustration of the problem that led my friend to stop discussing the topic. Hart seems to have a fundamental problem distinguishing argument from…
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Hart’s Responses to Frame
Darryl Hart has offered several responses to Frame’s book. The first response I’ll consider is one Hart titled, “More Than You Bargained For?” in which Hart responds to Frame’s comment: “They are also motivated by a desire to oppose what they regard as theological corruptions of the Reformation doctrine, particularly the views of N.T. Wright,…
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The Escondido Principle of Separation of Christianity and State – Reviewed
I was recently directed to this interesting review of Darryl Hart’s book (The book is titled: “A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State”): Hart thinks the root error of Christians who try to bring their faith into the arena of politics is the failure to understand that it just doesn’t…
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Darryl Hart’s Affirmations and Denials, Escondido Theology, and the Two Kingdoms
Darryl G. Hart has posted (well, Reed has posted for Darryl) some affirmations and denials on issues related to DGH’s view of the Two Kingdoms, a view Darryl misleading refers to as “the two kingdoms view” but which departs significantly from the two kingdoms views of Calvin and the Westminster divines. I had originally drafted…
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Darryl Hart on the Republication Overture – Smearing the Authors
I was sad to see this exchange: Darryl G. Hart to Mark: Mark, you mean the overture written by some who accused Westminster California of Pelagianism? Of course, Hart thinks that it is absurd to suggest that Westminster California might be guilty of Pelagianism, so this is his attempt to portray the authors of the…